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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
249
Thus
they
passed
round
to
the
coast
of
Ireland,
to
that
Valentia
Bay
where,
eight
years
before,
the
Earl
of
Carlisle
gave
his
benediction
on
the
departure
of
the
Niagara
and
the
Agamemnon,
and
where,
a
year
later,
the
gallant
English
ship
brought
her
end
of
the
cable
safely
to
the
shore.
The
point
of
landing
had
been
changed
from
Valentia
harbor
five
or
six
miles
to
Foilhommerum
Bay,
a
wild
spot
where
huge
cliffs
hang
over
the
waves
that
here
come
rolling
in
from
the
Atlantic.
On
the
top,
an
old
tower
of
the
time
of
Cromwell
tells
of
the
bloody
days
of
England's
great
civil
war.
It
is
now
but
a
mossy
ruin.
Here
the
peasants
who
flocked
in
from
the
country
pitched
their
booths
on
the
green
sward,
and
looked
down
from
the
dizzy
heights
on
the
boats
dancing
in
the
bay
below.
At
the
foot
of
the
cliff,
a
soft,
sandy
beach
forms
a
bed
for
the
cable,
and
here,
as
it
issues
from
the
sea,
it
is
led
up
a
channel
which
had
been
cut
for
it
in
the
rocks.
As
the
shore
end
was
very
massive
and
unwieldy,
it
could
not
be
laid
except
in
good
weather;
and
as
the
sea
was
now
rough,
the
Great
Eastern
withdrew
to
Bantry
Bay,
to
be
out
of
the
way
of
the
storms
which
sometimes
break
with
fury
on
this
rock-bound
coast.
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